Operation Manual

Introduction

First of all, thank you for choosing ProScan as your OBD-II scan tool and performance

analysis solution! We truly appreciate your business, and we hope that ProScan benefits

you tremendously.

ProScan started out as a project by me, David Gore, to develop an affordable OBD-II

scan tool for my own personal use. I was a college student at the time and I couldn’t

afford to spend over $400 on a laptop-based scan tool to aid in tuning my highly-

modified Camaro. So I did some research and discovered a Canadian company known as

ELM Electronics, who had recently developed a set of inexpensive microprocessors

capable of translating OBD-II communications into a format recognizable by PCs and

handheld computers. I purchased their hardware and spent the next few months

researching OBD-II standards and conducting in-vehicle experiments.

To mimic the expensive scan tools, I then started developing a graphical user interface to

simplify common tasks. After several months of hard work, I had developed an

application that could read and clear trouble codes, monitor and plot sensor data, and

even calculate performance statistics such as 1/4 mile time and trap speed. At the time,

my software was among the first to support the performance analysis features.

I quickly realized that my software bundled with ELM-based hardware had produced a

remarkably inexpensive scan tool with features rivaling those of the popular and

expensive tools! The product I had developed could save many other individuals

hundreds of dollars as well. So I created a web site and began distributing my software,

which I named ProScan. In no time at all, it was so popular that I couldn't meet the

demand by myself. Therefore, in February of 2005, my wife and I started Gore Research

with ProScan being our flagship product.

We at Gore Research are dedicated to maintaining ProScan as the most cost-effective

scan tool on the market. We even offer a price-match guarantee because we are so

confident that no other company can offer a similar product at a lower price. Our promise

to you is that we will continue to improve ProScan by implementing your requests and by

introducing new and innovative features. Best of all, you’ll receive these software

upgrades absolutely

free of charge!

Thank you for choosing ProScan as your OBD-II scan tool and performance analysis

solution! We look forward to serving your future diagnostic and analytical needs.

Thank you,

David & Amber Gore

Owners, Gore Research